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Solution: Minimum Number of Refueling Stops

Explore how to determine the minimum number of refueling stops a car needs to reach a destination using a greedy approach. Understand how to implement a max-heap to prioritize fuel stations, optimize stops, and manage fuel efficiently to solve the problem step-by-step.

Statement

You need to find the minimum number of refueling stops that a car needs to make to cover a distance, target. For simplicity, assume that the car has to travel from west to east in a straight line. There are various fuel stations on the way that are represented as a 2-D array of stations, i.e., stations[i] =[di,fi]= [d_i, f_i] ...